Getting the new showreel moving…
Update #1 – Honorverse, the Online Game. The brief for this was to create very pristine, very white starships based on David Weber Novels. Lots of fun, I got to blow holes in spaceships (which is something very dear to my heart), and was just about the most fun I had in 2007 at all. Here are two stills from the intro:
At the time, I’d argued for lots of visible hull panelling and nurnies, because let’s face it Galactica set the bar for meganurnies per cubic metre and I wanted to be like the cool kids. But no, the Honorverse ships had their outer armour laid on with nanotech, and so was to be smooth and clean. Very very clean. And white. Very white. Also, the client wanted fairly realistic missile explosions: a thermonuclear explosion driving laser beams. Bomb-pumped lasers, to use the terms. Here’s the existing trailer animation in low res (16.5Mb) and High Def (50Mb). Of course, now that it’s Showreel O’Clock I get to go back and whale on things until they make me happy, so I’ve spent some of the day adding just a soupçon of panelling and stuff
*edit* Let’s try embedding, shall we?
embedded by Embedded Video
YouTube Direkt
Youtube’s got it in semi-high-def natively, which is nicer to look at. But I really, really like being able to directly embed video in my website.
Yep. I feel OK about today’s work, given that I’d done one set of panels that just didn’t fit the rest of the design, had to toss ‘em out and start over. It’s nowhere near as nurnietastic as The Big G, but it’s all mine and that makes it special. Yesterday I was playing with explosions and got a Hypervoxel doing just about what I wanted it to do: Just the one bomb for now. (3 Mb) So that was the week so far. Now that I’m happier with the appearance of the vessels and the explosions, I can knuckle down and replace the other 58 explosions with those HVs. And set all their motion curves. All eight motions curves. 58 times. Oh, and I know Military Stuff gets painted uniform colours, but tomorrow I’m *SO* re-texturing those guns! Well, if I minded lots of repetative work, I should’ve done something not-animation, shouldn’t I? 
‘Til tomorrow, Internet. Meat!